Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
The Life List: Master Every Moment and Live an Audacious Life
By Kate Christie, Wiley, $29.95
It’s a brutal fact: life is too short. We also — only live once.
According to time-management expert, Kate Christie, life’s too short for a lot of things, but mostly too short to the point we need to live it every single day — to the fullest.
“We need to think deeply about what is most important to us. We need to prioritize those things. We need to purposefully plan to invest our time for the greatest possible joy. We need to invest our time in the people we love most — and in creating memories, being of service to others, generating happiness and fulfillment and wonder. And we need to start doing this right now. Today. Because if we don’t, we risk being too late. And that’s something we will regret forever.”
At its heart, that’s what this book is about. The Life List inspires you to seize control of your future, and to do so, today. “It’s about giving you proven frameworks to help shortcut your journey from today to your magnificent future.”
Forget that bucket list because you have to start living right away. There’s a real need to start living your best life — a life by design.
Christie faced her own mid-life realisation after turning 50, losing her former life partner to cancer and seeing her children move on as young adults. Life was too short, later might be too late, and something had to be done about it.
“I ditched life as a corporate lawyer to become Australia’s top time management expert, I’m a single mum to three young adult kids who fill my heart with equal intense measures of joy and stress.”
The Life List is your guide to designing the next magnificent part of your life, starting today. An enlivening, candid, at times amusing and a crushing call-to-action, this is a transformational, life-is-for-living handbook.
What’s more, it belongs in the hands of every man and woman who yearns to do something more spectacular!
